Word: glow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discovery was made in 1905. He fused a new alloy called Chromel-20% chromium, 80% nickel- which is still the only alloy or metal (except costly platinum) capable of offering prolonged electric resistance without burning out. Of this alloy or its variants are now made the wire elements which glow in electric stoves, heaters, curling irons, percolators, toasters, sterilizers, waffle irons, cigaret lighters, bed pads. Such an alloy is also used in 85% of all U. S. spark plugs. Metalman Marsh was the first man to make it, first to produce it commercially, first to put it on the market...
...haze over the Hudson, flew on toward Lakehurst, N. J. There a huge crowd had lined the U. S. Navy's vast lighter-than-air field for hours. At 5140 a.m. someone spotted the Zeppelin's big round nose poking up over the horizon in a pink glow from the rising...
...last complete play of Shakspere's, The Winter's Tale, basks in the the golden glow of the master's genius; the sweet country air runs all through it, and few, if any, of his plays leave a pleasanter picture in one's memory. "As long as men can think, Perdita shall brighten and sweeten, Hermione ennoble, mens' minds and lives...
...interesting commentary on the bill is the fact that it includes the following interesting phrase: "Whereas, Harvard University endeavors to foster and maintain the ideals of truth and freedom so dear to America . . ." It should impart a pleasing glow to the heart of every Harvard man to know that the Senate of the United States does not consider his university a hot-bed of red agitation, even if the Massachusetts legislature does. We refer the representative from Dorchester to Messrs Roosevelt, Garner, and Byrns, who are choosing the commission, for a certificate of Harvard's virtue...
...more than 4-to-1 his House colleagues voted down the Wadsworth proposition that farmers should be required to put up 15% of the cost. Congressmen could easily imagine thousands of farmers sitting under the glow of electric lights listening to their radios and nodding approvingly next November as an announcer broadcasts the news of their benefactors' reelection...